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Monday, May 7, 2012

Walker Supporters now worried about Electronic Voting Machine Fraud? Can you say "projection?"

Brad Blog has made a career out of reporting the Republican
march to control election results with hackable electronic voting machines and
elaborate schemes to commit election fraud. Over and over, Republicans have
laughed at the accusations, calling the very idea a conspiracy theory cooked up
by Democrats.

Until now! They’re scared. Scott Walker’s job is on the line. They know how easy it is to hacked into voting machines, so they are now “projecting” their own behavior on the Democratic
Party.

But even worse, activist conservative media reporters are
ginning up Republican voters with the possibility their votes will be stolen
by those same electronic voting machines, a fear already exploited by right
wingers who claim the recall will cancel out their vote in 2010.

The conservative leaning Wisconsin Reporter is trying to
spearhead a movement to get talk radio hosts riled up enough to give legitimacy
to their conspiracy theory:

Adshead’s profile of computer software tester John
Washburn revealed that the Government Accountability Board,
Wisconsin’s election oversight agency, does not require municipalities to
recertify their election machines when they update aging technology. That makes
the state’s election system vulnerable to breakdown. With the state politically
polarized, any election abnormality quickly could metastasize, producing legal
challenges and counter-challenges like those that trashed the presidential
election of 2000. GAB, of course, is distracted, having had to deal with two
years of recall elections. But by failing to certify all voting machines in all
municipalities, GAB is setting us up to lose. No election system is perfect.
But until GAB can assure us that it can address Washburn’s concerns, the
state’s voters will continue walking blithely toward the land mine.

Here's what Democrats have been yelling about for years, yet only received a snicker from the GOP:

It’s important to point out who wrote the election fraud article
above:

Kevin Binversie is a Wisconsin native who has been blogging
on the state’s political culture for more than eight years. He has served in
the George W. Bush administration from 2007-2009, worked at the Heritage Foundation...